youtube-dl: YouTube-DL (YouTube.com Videos Downloader) youtube-dl: youtube-dl: YouTube-DL is a small command-line program to download videos from youtube-dl: YouTube.com. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or youtube-dl: later, and it's not platform specific. youtube-dl: Use youtube-dl followed by a video URL or identifier. youtube-dl: Example: youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar". The youtube-dl: video will be saved to the file foobar.flv in that example. youtube-dl: youtube-dl: youtube-dl: